Covid-19: Patients who are improving could have treatment withdrawn if others could benefit more
Doctors could be forced to withdraw lifesaving treatment from stable or improving patients to prioritise…
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Covid-19: doctors’ visas are automatically extended for one year
The visas of doctors, nurses, and paramedics that will expire before 1 October will automatically…
Gynaecologist is suspended for 12 months after sexual advances were reported in wake of #MeToo
A leading obstetrician and gynaecologist has been suspended from the UK medical register for 12…
Covid-19: Rules on sharing confidential patient information are relaxed in England
The Department of Health and Social Care for England has relaxed the rules on sharing…
Covid-19: four fifths of cases are asymptomatic, China figures indicate
New evidence has emerged from China indicating that the large majority of coronavirus infections do…
Protect our healthcare workers
For healthcare staff at the front line of the covid-19 pandemic, work has suddenly become…
Money injection for public services
On 11 March, Rishi Sunak, the chancellor of the exchequer, presented his first budget and…
Are UK doctors getting sufficient protective equipment against covid-19?
The BMA has warned that doctors are at risk of serious illness or even death…
Drugs and the renin-angiotensin system in covid-19
Covid-19, which is caused by the single stranded RNA coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, poses therapeutic dilemmas. Some…
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Infectious diseases in children and adolescents in China: analysis of national surveillance data from 2008 to 2017
AbstractObjectivesTo outline which infectious diseases in the pre-covid-19 era persist in children and adolescents in…
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Fighting covid-19 outbreaks in prisons
Poor prison healthcare has been reported by Armstrong.1 Improving prison health services is critical for…
Ministry of Justice comment on “The prison service is still failing inmates’ healthcare needs”
The BMJ contacted the Ministry of Justice for comment on this story and received the…
Safety of referred doctors: All doctors are human and therefore vulnerable
This Week, 7 MarchI read this news story1 with great sadness. A systemic failure has…
Cooperation as an alternative to nationalisation of the pharmaceutical industry
Head to Head, 7 MarchSerial title in print: Drug industry debateMazzucato and Li, and Darzi…
Covid-19: Hospitals can remove 15% cap on testing of NHS staff
NHS hospitals have been told to remove the 15% cap on the proportion of tests…
Covid-19: Use radiotherapy only if “unavoidable,” says NICE
Patients should be treated with radiotherapy only if it is “unavoidable,” and even then the…
Covid-19: US gives emergency approval to hydroxychloroquine despite lack of evidence
The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized clinicians to prescribe chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for…
Reducing inequalities and inequities for patients with intellectual disabilities
Abbasi talks about the social determinants of health inequalities.1 Inequalities and inequities in health and…
Socioeconomic gradient in health and the covid-19 outbreak
At the time of writing [1 April 2020], there have been 859 556 confirmed cases…
Covid-19: New York City deaths pass 1000 as Trump tells Americans to distance for 30 days
US President Donald Trump has told Americans to practise social distancing for another 30 days…
Covid-19: UK deaths are higher than previously reported, new data suggest
The number of UK deaths from covid-19 is higher than previously reported, show newly published…
Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study estimates
The overall death rate from covid-19 has been estimated at 0.66%, rising sharply to 7.8%…
John Richard Pogmore
bmj;368/mar31_10/m1221/FAF1faJohn Richard Pogmore was a Royal Air Force medical cadet who, after qualifying, earned his…
Doctors’ vocation: true satisfaction comes from what you put in
Kar challenges doctors to consider why we chose medicine and what motivates us to continue.1…
To maintain ethical medical practices, we must not underplay the vocational aspect of medicine
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the…
Covid-19: healthcare staff in hotspot areas are prioritised as testing expands
Medical leaders have welcomed the government’s “belated” decision to expand covid-19 testing capacity but said…
Covid-19: Contact tracing requires ending the hostile environment
For contact tracing to be viable, all sections of the community must be willing to…
Why healthcare leadership should embrace quality improvement
Healthcare staff often have a positive experience of quality improvement (QI) compared with the daily…
Doctors’ vocation: ȷustifying the sacrifices expected of healthcare workers
Kar asks whether being a doctor is a vocation.1 Use of the word vocation seems…
John Thompson Rowling
bmj;368/mar31_15/m1220/FAF1faJohn Thompson Rowling (“JTR”) was a retired consultant surgeon. He worked in Sheffield at the…
Edward Williams Hughes
bmj;368/mar31_14/m1224/FAF1faEdward Williams Hughes, known as Eddie to all his medical colleagues, was a consultant physician…
Roger Cull
bmj;368/mar31_13/m1225/FAF1faAfter house jobs Roger Cull was a Medical Research Council fellow and did his PhD…
Gordon Alexander Dyce Lavy
bmj;368/mar31_12/m1223/FAF1faGordon Alexander Dyce Lavy was born in Nablus, Palestine. His father was a doctor as…
Patricia Joy Stuart
bmj;368/mar31_11/m1219/FAF1faPatricia Joy Stuart had to fight a school that did not teach chemistry to girls…
Quality improvement into practice
What you need to knowThinking of quality improvement (QI) as a principle-based approach to change…
We need a network of exercise centres for older people
The subtitle of Izquierdo and colleagues’ excellent article might be more accurate if changed from…
From conference centre to hospital
bmj;368/mar31_8/m1298/FAF1faAndrew Parsons /10 Downing Street/Anadolu Agency /Getty ImagesTeams begin work setting up the Nightingale Hospital…
Covid-19: Doctors still at “considerable risk” from lack of PPE, BMA warns
The BMA has warned that doctors are still being placed at “considerable risk” by shortages…
Opioid agonist treatment and risk of mortality during opioid overdose public health emergency: population based retrospective cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo compare the risk of mortality among people with opioid use disorder on and off…
Health benefits of policies to reduce carbon emissions
In June 2019 the UK legally committed to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other…
WHO should declare climate change a public health emergency
Anthony McMichael first established the link between climate change and human health in the 1990s.1…
The health case for urgent action on climate change
It is about 30 years since warnings first appeared in prominent journals about the potential…
Making healthcare and health systems net zero
The climate emergency that is a key part of the Anthropocene poses substantial risks (and…
Stroke survivor should not have feeding tube withdrawn, rules judge in case heard by Skype
A stroke survivor who repeatedly told carers that he wanted to die should not have…
Covid-19: Trump extends physical distancing to 30 April, as cases climb in New York
President Donald Trump has extended physical distancing guidelines for the US to 30 April, reversing…
Helen Salisbury: Fear in the time of covid
While London’s hospitals are already nearing capacity, many other areas are still in the “phoney…
Covid-19: Mercedes F1 to provide breathing aid as alternative to ventilator
Mercedes F1 will produce continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines for the NHS to use…
Doctors as leaders: be honest about continued underfunding
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges recognises that the past decade has been difficult for…
Getting the right PPE: five minutes with . . . Sarah Hallett
“We’ve heard that deliveries of personal protective equipment (PPE) are being rolled out to hospitals…
Covid-19: how coronavirus will change the face of general practice forever
At practice level, primary care has altered dramatically in the past few weeks, with staff—clinical…